Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...In October, the UK prime minister announced a plan to save £6.5bn from the redevelopment of the Euston terminus and tunnel link by handing responsibility to a new public-private development corporation....
...In October 2019, Merck also completed a €5.8bn acquisition of US-based Versum Materials, which makes critical components used in semiconductors. Merck declined to comment....
...Analysts remain bullish, with consensus forecasts predicting earnings per share (EPS) will hit 3.91p by the end of this year and 5.68p by the end of 2025....
...Fox shares closed up almost 2.5 per cent to $30.59 on Wednesday and are up about 9 per cent this year, narrowly underperforming the gain in the S&P 500 index....
...The Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Singapore’s second-largest lender, has made an offer to fully acquire its life insurance subsidiary Great Eastern Holdings....
...The league’s current arrangement with Disney’s ESPN and Warner’s TNT allows for some games to be aired on ABC, Disney’s free-to-air broadcast network, and last autumn Warner began experimenting with simulcasting...
...Ireland will raise its corporation tax to 15 per cent from 12.5 per cent, under one pillar of the deal....
...target of anti-DEI campaigners for featuring minority and queer characters in its films, reported that it had increased the share of its executives that identified as people of colour from 21 per cent to 28.5...
...The corporation said broadcast viewing was already in decline among all audience groups, and particularly among younger audiences....
...But the roughly 300 experts from banks, insurance companies and corporations surveyed by the institute judged the current economic situation to be poor, with an index reading of minus 80.5...
...BAE Systems has agreed to acquire the aerospace division of Ball Corporation in a $5.55bn cash deal, the UK-based defence company said on Thursday....
...Once fully bedded in, the new 15 per cent minimum tax is expected to force multinationals to pay between 6.5 per cent and 8.1 per cent more tax, according to the OECD....
...“Who knew it was going to be a unicorn,” he said last month on ABC radio....
...Norwegian Cruise Lines jumped almost 20 per cent after it shared an optimistic full year outlook and reported its first full-year profit since 2019 Hess weakened by 3.5 per cent after Chevron warned its...
...The Fed’s own “dot plot” forecasts show rate-setters, as of March, expected to make three cuts this year from the benchmark rate’s current 23-year high of 5.25 per cent to 5.5 per cent....
...It is 49.5 per cent owned by Reinet Investments, a vehicle backed by South African billionaire Johann Rupert, and includes CVC Capital Partners among its shareholders....
...He bought equal stakes of 5 per cent in the big five trading companies, which also include Mitsui & Co, Sumitomo and Marubeni. He has bulked up these positions in the last year....
...Shares of aluminium producer Alcoa fell 5.4 per cent after it made a $2.2bn offer to acquire Australian mining corporation Alumina Limited....
...The action begins on Wednesday at 5.30pm BST and can be followed on twitch.tv. Carlsen is pre-qualified for the later rounds and will start his tournament on Friday....
...The latest official inflation data, out last week, showed a 3.5 per cent increase in consumer prices for the year to March, higher than economists had expected....
...Several countries long seen as havens by multinationals will take part, including Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Barbados, which previously had a corporate tax rate of 5.5 per cent...
...Sraer suggests that the scheme has another benefit: it turns employees into corporation tax enforcement officers....
...“The effect is that container ships and oil and chemical tankers are having to take a 5,000-mile detour around Africa to reach Europe and elsewhere.”...
...But the outlook for big banks has improved with the market now only expecting the Fed to make between two and three rate cuts over the course of 2024 from their current 23-year high of 5.25 per cent to 5.5...
...A White House spokesperson reposted a clip of an interview on ABC on Sunday in which Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, described Biden as “very clear and very focused”....
International Edition